DIGITAL ARITHMETIC CIRCUIT

摘要

A digital arithmetic circuit (10) includes an inverting circuit (28) connected to a digital circuit (48) in which errors are to be detected. An operand input to the circuit (10) produces an output result in a first operation which is stored in a comparison circuit (82). The operand is inverted by the inverting circuit (28) on a second cycle of operation of the circuit (10) and the output result is compared by the comparison circuit (82) with that from the first operation. A non-zero result from the comparison indicates the occurrence of an error or errors in the operation of the circuit (10).